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Civil Rights Pathfinder

Circulating Books


Lyndon Baines Johnson

921 JOH Great Society: the Story of Lyndon Baines Johnson
921 JOH Lyndon B. Johnson
973.923 DAL Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973

J. Edgar Hoover

364.152 SID Hellhound on His Trail: the Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin

Martin Luther King, Jr.

321.009 100 100 Most Influential World Leaders of All Time
323.09 BAU Marching to the Mountaintop
323.09 MIL The Dream Lives On: Martin Luther King, Jr.
323.092ASS The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
323.119 PAR Marching for Freedom
323.4 DYS April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and the Transformation of America
741.5 FLO I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. 921 KIN Martin Luther King: A Biography

Reference Book

R920 CUR Current Biography
R920SAL Salute to Historic Black Achievers
R920.073 REA Research Guide to American Historical Biography
R973.08 ANN The Annals of America (1950-1960) (1961-1968)

Databases

Biography in Context: contains more than 450,000 biographies on more than 380,000 people.
Biography Reference Center: Part of the Facts on File Database Suite. This is a trial
Chelsea House Biographies Online: Full length biographies of contemporary and historical individuals.
Student Resources: Includes articles, images and primary sources.
ABC-CLIO: American History and World History databases.
ABC-CLIO E-book Collection: Use Quick Search to locate books on your historical figure.
Gale Virtual Reference Center: Provides a collection of e-books including American Eras, World Eras and the Encyclopedia of World Biography
World Book Encyclopedia

Web Portals

Civil Rights Timeline:
Sitting for Justice: National Museum of American History:
Investigative Responsibilities of the FBI in the Civil Rights:
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library:
The President's Daily diaries, 1963-1969:
New Release of Telephone Conversations:
Martin Luther King Jr.: A Biographical Sketch